പാർലമെൻറ്ൻറെ ചില സവിശേഷതകൾ, ബജറ്റ് എന്നിവയെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ.
- Situation in which no political party has an absolute majority after the election
Hung Parliament
- The official of a political party whose responsibility is to ensure discipline in a legislature
Whip
- If a legislative member of a political party disobey the Whip issued, he will be disqualified under
Anti Defection Law
- The procedure of debating over a proposed piece of legislation in order to delay or prevent the decision being made on that
Filibuster
- The process of manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency in favor of the ruling party
Gerry Mandering
- The process of terminating the sitting of Parliament is called
Adjournment
- Adjournment is done by
The presiding officer of the house
- The process of terminating the sitting of the house for an indefinite period is called
Adjournment sine die
- The process of terminating the session of Parliament is called
Prorogation
- Prorogation is done by
The President
- In case of Prorogation
Does not affect pending bills, all notices lapses
- The process of ending the life of a house by the President is called
Dissolution
- Dissolution is applicable only for
Lok Sabha
- All businesses including bills, committees will lapse in case of
Dissolution
- The period between the prorogation and reassembly is called as
Recess
- Members of the existing Lok Sabha who could not get re-elected to the new Lok Sabha
Lame ducks
- Article dealing with Budget
Article 112
- The word Budget s derived from
French word Bougette means a small bag
- The term used for indicating Budget in the constitution
Annual Financial Statement
- Estimate of all anticipated receipts and expenditure of the coming year is called
Budget
- Financial year in India
From 1st April to 31st March
- Budget laid before the Parliament in the name of
President
- Railway Budget separated from the General budget in
1924
- Railway Budget separated from the General budget by the recommendation of
Acworth Committee
- The first Budget of free India was presented by
RK Shanmugham Chetty
- The first Budget of free India was presented on
26th November 1947
- Maximum number of Budgets presented after Morarji Desai by
P Chidambaram (9 budgets)
- Maximum number of Budgets on a raw presented by
CD Deshmukh (7 budgets)
- The decision to merge Railway budget with general Budget was taken on
21 September 2016
- Single Budget after the merging of railway budget was presented on
1st February 2017
- First finance minister to present Budget on February 1
Arun Jaitley
- The word Interim Budget was first used by
RK Shanmukham Chetty
- First finance minister to present an Interim Budget was
CD Deshmukh
- The annual budget of states undergoing presidential election will be presented at
Parliament
- Which part of the Budget is dealing with taxation policy
Second part
- The voting on demands for grants is the exclusive privilege of
Lok Sabha
- Number of demands in General Budget
109 (103 for civil and 6 for defense)
- Number of demands in Railway Budget
32
- Types of Budgets are
Line Item budget, performance budget, programme budget and zero based budget
- Which are the heads consists of Budget
Consolidated Fund, Contingency Fund, Public account of India
- Article dealing with Consolidated fund
Article 266
- Article dealing with the Contingency fund
Article 267
- Article dealing with Public Account of India
Article 266 (2)
- All the revenues collected, loans raised and the income generated by Govt of India kept under
Consolidated fund
- Fund reserved for emergencies and unexpected economic crises
Contingency fund
(To be Continued…)